Hi everybody, hi African Chief!

It seems that I am no more the only one who uses Objects. :-)

According to The African Chief:

Using the latest GPC alpha (9704), I find that I cannot import objects from a unit. I originally had the source for TObject (below) in a unit, and used the unit in this program (test.pas). I had compile errors all the time.

That's strange because when I put TObject below in a separate Unit everything compiles fine. However the resulting code is buggy. :-( I will investigate this.

Did you recompile the Unit? The GPI file format changes with every new alpha GPC.

Then, I put the object's source into test.pas itself, and it compiled. But when I tried to create a descendant object (NewObj), as seen in the source below, again, I had compile errors - complaining about the "initializer element" for some of the methods not being "constant".

I see. You have detected a bug ... even two bugs. Thanks for reporting them!

Can anyone tell why this source does not compile, even with the -borland-pascal flag?

The `--borland-pascal' switch has no effect on this. You do not need to enable Objects, but vice versa, if you specify one of `--standard-pascal-level-0', `--standard-pascal', `--extended-pascal', or `--ucsd-pascal', you *disable* OOP.

Peter

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